I read the author’s (very long and meandering) novel last year. Wondering if her short stories would be any better, I decided to try this anthology. Unfortunately, I don’t think this author is for me. I usually like a character-driven story but I think that this author kind of fails at both characters and plot. I can’t tell if the translation is at fault, but all of her writing feels stilted and disjointed. The stories were forgettable immediately upon finishing them except for Metamorphosis, which is still haunting me a bit; that one was the only bright spot in the whole book.